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Mark Alpert Books in Order

Mark Alpert has written 11 books, published between 2008 and 2022. The first book is Final Theory (2008) and the newest is The Doomsday Show (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2008–2022
Confirmed
11 of 11 titles
Pages on record
2,915 in 9 of 11 books
Reading time
49–73 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,915 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

See all 11 books in order Printable Mark Alpert checklist

Mark Alpert writes science fiction and suspense thrillers, and the catalogue lists 11 books from 2008 to 2022. David Swift is the named series, alongside a group of standalone novels. Final Theory (2008) is the first book, followed by The Omega Theory (2011), Extinction (2013), The Furies (2014) and The Six (2015). The Orion Plan (2016), The Siege (2016), The Silence (2017), The Coming Storm (2019) and Saint Joan of New York (2020) come later, and The Doomsday Show (2022) is the newest. Subject headings include artificial intelligence, robots, unified field theories, physics teachers and historians of science.

How many Mark Alpert books are there?

Mark Alpert has 11 books, released between 2008 and 2022. They include 2 separate series.

Mark Alpert Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Mark Alpert books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Final Theory by Mark Alpert, book 1 of the David Swift series (2008)
  2. Cover of The Omega Theory by Mark Alpert, book 2 of the David Swift series (2011)
  3. Cover of Extinction by Mark Alpert, book 1 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2013)
  4. Cover of The Furies by Mark Alpert, book 2 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2014)
  5. Cover of The Six by Mark Alpert, book 1 of the Six series (2015)
  6. Cover of The Siege by Mark Alpert, book 2 of the Six series (2016)
  7. Cover of The Orion Plan by Mark Alpert, book 3 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2016)
  8. Cover of The Silence by Mark Alpert, book 3 of the Six series (2017)
  9. Cover of The Coming Storm by Mark Alpert, book 4 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2019)
  10. Cover of Saint Joan of New York by Mark Alpert, book 5 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2020)
  11. Cover of The Doomsday Show by Mark Alpert, book 6 of the Mark Alpert Standalone Novels series (2022)
  1. 1
    Final TheoryDavid Swift #12008 · confirmed 3/4
    2008–
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  2. 2
    The Omega TheoryDavid Swift #22011 · 308 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011308
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  3. 3
    ExtinctionMark Alpert Standalone Novels #12013 · 373 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013373
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  4. 4
    The FuriesMark Alpert Standalone Novels #22014 · 312 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014312
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  5. 5
    The SixSix #12015 · 373 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015373
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  6. 6
    The SiegeSix #22016 · 275 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016275
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  7. 7
    The Orion PlanMark Alpert Standalone Novels #32016 · 322 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016322
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  8. 8
    The SilenceSix #32017 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017384
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  9. 9
    The Coming StormMark Alpert Standalone Novels #42019 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019336
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  10. 10
    Saint Joan of New YorkMark Alpert Standalone Novels #52020 · 232 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020232
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  11. 11
    The Doomsday ShowMark Alpert Standalone Novels #62022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
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Mark Alpert books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Mark Alpert Standalone Novels

6 books

6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Six in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Six
  2. 2. The Siege
  3. 3. The Silence

David Swift in order

2 books
  1. 1. Final Theory
  2. 2. The Omega Theory

Do you have to read Mark Alpert books in order?

You only need to read Mark Alpert books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Mark Alpert

Start with Final Theory (2008), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mark Alpert book?

The Doomsday Show (2022) is the newest Mark Alpert book released so far.

Is there a new Mark Alpert book coming?

No next Mark Alpert book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Mark Alpert at a glance

Paused
No new Mark Alpert title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Mark Alpert books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,915 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 322 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mark Alpert books, 8 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Mark Alpert books are about

9 of the 11 Mark Alpert books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 5 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.